Unarmed Teen Shot By Police, Cried For His Mother As He Died: ‘Mommy, Mommy, Please Come’
Those words now haunt Lucia Morejon, Hector’s mother. She tells us that Long Beach police thought the 19-year-old was in possession of a firearm. They were wrong. But this alone seemed cause to the Long Beach officers to open fire and kill Hector on Thursday afternoon.
Lucia Morejon’s attorney says Hector was clearly unarmed, and had nothing that resembled a firearm when police unloaded on him.
Hector’s final words to his mother came as he was being placed into an ambulance, the attorney alleges. They desperate cry was a response to police refusing to allow Lucia see her dying son before the ambulance drove away.
“He was reaching for her – reaching out to her for help,” Sonia Mercado, the lawyer for the family told The Huffington Post.
“She identified herself as his mother, expecting to ride with him to the hospital, but they refused to let her in.”
Now, Lucia says she hears these dying words of her innocent son, every day, echoing in her mind: “Mommy, Mommy, please come, please come.”
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“The officer observed [Morejon] turn towards him, while bending his knees, and extending his arm out as if pointing an object which the officer perceived was a gun,” a press release from the Long Beach Police Department attempted to rationalize.
“At this point, an officer involved shooting occurred,” the statement continued, in noting the obvious.
All in all, Friday’s press release said nothing of any substance or value. The police have made it clear that they will protect their own, even when they gun down innocent, unarmed teenagers.
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http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/04/justice-for-hector-morejon-now/
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It seems like there is an epidemic of this nonsense going on. Everyday you hear or read about some unarmed teenager or young person being gunned down by police or police wannabes (like George Zimmerman.) Could this REALLY have been happening all along with this intensity or is this something very new? It seems like, from the stories you hear, that even freezing and not moving still results in being shot. Because of the deaths, it tells the story of multiple shots, not just one that hit these victims. By the looks of things, if I were a person of color or some other minority, I would be afraid to even venture outside. That mother in Baltimore who pulled her teenage son out of the protesting crowd (and touted as "the mother of the year"
later told reporters that she did NOT do this out of civic responsibility as people originally thought. She did it out of FEAR that her son would get shot and killed even if he was doing nothing. God bless her!
I don't want to go too far out in the weeds on this, because ultimately, the OP is about the heart-wrenching dying words of yet another unarmed black man murdered by cops.
But I think it's important to point out the demographics of gun ownership in this county, which clearly show the racial bias cops are using when jumping to the conclusion that a black man is "reaching for his gun" with little to no evidence that he even has one. It's a bullshit excuse.
If you take a look at these stats, who is more likely to be carrying a gun?... It's the conservative, rural, white man... Yet, it is black men who are disproportionately being seen as "threats", even though they are much more likely to be unarmed. Michelle Alexander, author of 'The New Jim Crow' couldn't possibly be more correct about what is really going on here.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/15/the-demographics-and-politics-of-gun-owning-households/
couldn't read it. I think on some level they hope that's what people do, just skip it because it's too sad, too gruesome, too something. 
